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UK - Chauvet reports that season two of ITV1's television show Ant & Dec's Push the Button, showcased nearly 100 COLORado 1 Tour wash lights which were used to uplight the set.

The fixtures were specified by lighting designer Mark Kenyon and supplied by TMB, a production and services company for professionals in the entertainment production and architectural lighting industry.

The richly appointed set was a feast for the audience's eyes - both in the studio and for those at home. The woven textured walls were uplit in saturated washes by COLORado 1 Tour fixtures discreetly lining the staircases contestants descended to reach the stage.

"The COLORado 1 Tour performed amazingly well," said Mark Kenyon. "They are tremendously bright, with an even field of ri

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UK - Steady growth in all its core sectors during 2011 has resulted in Paradigm Audio Visual ending the year with a short move from its Bedford base to vastly expanded facilities on a modern industrial estate.

"With over 10,000sq.ft at our disposal this gives us between two and three times the capacity we had at Swan Works," states founder and CEO Greg Jeffreys. "We are replacing the quaintness and quirkiness of a former laundry with an open plan scenario, which will enable us to build infrastructure to support the growth."

The move has largely been brought about by the increase in simulation business - which now operates as a separate division. "We needed an expanded demo and proof-of concept areas, which we now have," continues Jeffreys. "At the same time the move coincides with a substantial investment in infrastructure, such as advanced s

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UK - Stage Electrics supplied its new 20mm pixel-pitch LED curtain for Portishead's recent European tour that included two headlining slots at the I'll Be Your Mirror festival staged by All Tomorrows' Parties at Alexandra Palace, London.

Providing the central visual focus of the production, the stage-wide LED video curtain, using 100m² of panels for a screen size of 14 x 7m, showed the work of video director John Minton and video content designers As Described, an hallucinatory smorgasbord of grungy imagery and deliberately lo-fi, distorted i-mag work.

Stage Electrics was brought in by As Described, and flew the screen from four 1 ton Lodestars and 14m of Prolyte Truss, as well as supplying mains distro and a portable production unit consisting of two Analog Way Tetra-VIO scalers, preview monitors and a 32x32 Composite Matrix Switcher. For the final two IBYM shows at Alexandr

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Italy - Coemar S.p.A. has announced that the company has a new majority shareholder, Salvatore Grillo, who will immediately take up the role of sole administrator. Ten years after being acquired by the private equity fund Mezzanine Management UK Ltd (now MML Capital Partners), the company, which has a long history in the field of entertainment lighting, again has an Italian majority shareholder.

Salvatore Grillo is a 37-year old entrepreneur who, after accumulating his professional experience in a wide variety of companies in Germany and the United Kingdom, has decided to undertake a new challenge at the head of Coemar, alongside the renewed commitment of MML Capital Partners, which remain as minority shareholders.

"After nearly 15 years abroad, I'm very pleased to be able to sustain an Italian firm that is a real ambassador of the 'Made in Italy' in over 70 countries&quo

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UK - London-based AV and technical production services company Presentation Rentals (PR) supplied external building projection and sound and lighting equipment for two party areas within the Freemason's Hall in London's Covent Garden for the press launch of the latest Batman game sensation - Arkham City.

PR was working for production company Limited Edition, for whom they are a frequent supplier of technical production design and services.

Outside, across the street from the entrance of Freemason's Hall, the PR crew built a scaffolding tower, and onto this was positioned two Panasonic 10K projectors, double stacked and fitted with .8 lenses.

The venue is an imposing Art Deco building dating back to 1933, now Grade II listed inside and out, and one of the finest examples of this architecture in the UK. The throw distance was 10m and the projection area about 45ft wide,

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USA - Allen & Heath recently conducted an iLive User Certification in the Minneapolis metro are with over 40 attendees being part of the event.

The programme is based around the iLive Fixed format series and features a four-hour certification course on programming, networking and overall operation of the iLive Digital Mixing System. Attendees included, local dealers, production companies end users and consultants.

Michael Palmer, sales manager for Allen & Heath USA comments, "We have received an overwhelming response to these hands on mixing clinics. The opportunity to be able to sit users down at the system and go through the nuts and bolt of this amazingly flexible system is priceless.

"With the networking capabilities of the iLive system we have live multi-track demos connected via our new Dante card into the Master system and all other systems are receiving aud

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USA - Long before the curtains were first raised in Miami Beach's New World Centre, expectations were high that it would be a spectacular educational and performance facility, home to the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy. While bringing to life its mission of becoming a destination for creativity and inspiration, the Centre also debuted as a cultural icon, introducing Pulse, a spin on the orchestral experience within a nightclub setting.

To help performers get the best monitor mixes in a hall where the acoustics are quite reverberant, Pro Sound and Video, a Miami-based company that specialises in providing high quality, technology solutions for audio, video, theatre, club and broadcast projects, equipped the New World Centre with an Aviom Pro16 personal mixing system.

Early in the New World Centre's first season, Aviom's Personal Mixers played an important role

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UK - Klark Teknik has announced "a major new investment in people, brand and research and development".

The "rebirth" of Klark Teknik, enabled by parent corporation the MUSIC Group, will see KT recruiting key personnel in marketing, research and development, as well as customer support and manufacturing.

A company statement says, "The classic brand has ambitious plans to enter new market sectors with a raft of new high-quality products, including high-performance, feature-enhanced amplifiers and loudspeakers, specialist audio mixers and studio monitors, professional DJ mixers, USB and FireWire audio interfaces, as well as further developing and expanding its core expertise in signal processing and digital audio networking."

"For some time, Klark Teknik has existed in the shadow of the Midas brand," says MKT's VP of customer support, Jo

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UK - PLASA Focus: Leeds 2012 looks set to continue its success story with over 90% of exhibition space already contracted and new exhibitors joining the 130 that showed at this year's event.

Key brands that have signed up for the first time include Midas, d&b audiotechnik, on the back of their participation at PLASA 2011, ShowTex, Topdeck Stage Systems and Smoke Factory, whose team visited the event in 2011 and were keen to have a stand presence in 2012. More exhibitors will be announced in the coming weeks.

Packed aisles and major new product launches have now firmly established PLASA Focus as an unmissable industry event for the north of England, but organisers PLASA Events insist they are far from resting on their laurels.

Event manager Sophie Atkinson said, "The last show was a real success with exhibitors and visitors, and while it's great to see its popularity gro

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Russia - Last month saw the spectacular inauguration of a new multimedia fountain in Krasnodar's Theatre Square in front of 15,000 people. The fountain is now the centrepiece of the square that has been fully renovated and remodelled to provide a suitably grandiose backdrop for the new fountain design that features a central jet powerful enough to project up to 30m in the air.

Pro audio systems specialists, Yugdoka, were called in to handle the acoustics for the new installation. They specified APG MC216C systems throughout, powered by Lab.gruppen C Series amplifiers.

Yugdoka's owner and MD, Alexander Kharchenko explained that the new fountain is a complex and sophisticated structure comprising a number of concentric rings of fountains around the central jet and a further four 'satellite' rings around the outside, of the main circle, each with their own, smaller central jet. T

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Australia - European LED manufacturer Anolis has engineered and produced a custom lighting solution for a major new installation in the impressive foyer space of The Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)'s award winning theatre complex in Kensington, Sydney.

A new energy efficient lighting scheme has been installed, replacing 28 recessed 500W PAR 56 halogen fittings with the new Anolis ArcSource 48 MultiChip (MC) fixture, specially designed by Anolis for this project.

The Anolis ArcSource 48 MC consists of twelve 10W Cree MCE RGBW LED chips, which enable full and seamless RGB colour mixing plus an excellent selection of 'real' whites in a variety of colour temperatures.

NIDA's lighting supervisor Adrian Wright explains that top of their brief for the new lighting was to make a significant reduction in electricity consumption across NIDA's public areas. They al

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Denmark / UK - British based distributor Paradigm Audio Visual has been presented with dnp denmark's 'Partner of the Year' award, in recognition of outstanding sales of both their front- and rear-projection systems over the past year.

dnp denmark's global sales & marketing manager, S°ren Kræmmergaard, presented the award to Paradigm founder and CEO, Greg Jeffreys, and Supernova specialist, Dave Stephen, at company headquarters in Karslunde during a partner recertification programme.

Mr. Kræmmergaard paid tribute to Paradigm's early adoption of the Supernova platform, and having enrolled early into the Partner Programme, backed up their already considerable rear-projection sales by recruiting a dedicated Supernova specialist in Dave Stephen, to supervise their front projection platform.

This had paid almost instant dividends, with an order last month for well over 200 d

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South Africa - Cape Town-based Hellfire, which recently purchased six new Robin 300 LED Wash fixtures, provided the full technical for the Nu World and Lemontree stages at Rocking the Daisies, held at Cloof Wine Estate, Western Cape recently. Lindsay Barton was the sound and lighting technician at the festival.

"It is a fantastic festival to be involved with, especially in terms of the obscure and eclectic styles of music and highly skilled entertainers we get to work with on our stages," commented Barton. "This year they ranged from magicians, comedians and burlesque dancers to Pirate, Gypsy, Balkan and Mediterranean surf rock style bands."

This is the sixth year of the show and Hellfire have been involved since its second year. They provided the Nu World beat ring and Lemontree stage with all technical crew such as sound engineers, lighting designe

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World - PLASA's month-long elections to determine positions on its European and North American Regional Boards, together with its central Governing Body, concluded at midnight on Monday 31 October.

Companies and individuals from across PLASA's worldwide membership voted in the elections which were conducted via a secure online poll.

Four positions were up for election on the European Regional Board. Ed Pagett of Panalux, who took the helm part-way through 2011, was overwhelmingly voted in to serve a further three-year term as Chair of the Board. Malcolm Burlow of Highlite was re-elected as the Dealer/Retailer Representative, while Ed Manwaring also secured re-election as the Individual Representative. Peter James of Shure Distribution UK becomes the new Distributor Representative.

Three positions were up for election on the North American Regional Board: having been asked to

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UK - For the fifth consecutive year, the NFL held a football game in London. Once again, Britannia Row Productions provided live audio for the event to the 86,000 crowd inside Wembley Stadium for the Chicago - Tampa Bay NFL game. Audinate's Dante technology distributed the audio for the sound reinforcement system.

System engineer Sergiy Zhytnikov reports: "Signal distribution around the field was achieved using Dante linked Lab.gruppen LM 26 and LM 44 Processors. A total of 14 of these units were deployed for the game. The use of fibre optic cabling to deliver both Dante audio and control remotely gave real benefit instead of using 2000m of analogue cabling which due to necessity was placed in cabling conduits at field level, along with every other kind of electrical cable imaginable."

Dante also solved the problem of signal degradation over long distances. Zhytnikov

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Albania - Loudspeakers from EAW have been chosen for three venues in the new 13,000sq.ft Diesel Hall complex in Tirana, Albania. Prosound Shpk, EAW's Albanian distributor, was approached to recommend sound system solutions for the facility's Botanik restaurant, Champagne Bar and Lounge Bar. Diesel Hall owner Ermal Gashi decided to go with Prosound's recommendations, which included EAW loudspeakers and subwoofers from their SMS and VR series, among others. The system was designed by Jeff Pratt.

The system in the Botanik restaurant includes six EAW SMS5 surface mount loudspeakers in a white finish and two EAW VRS18 high output subwoofers; the Champagne Bar features 12 EAW SMS3 surface mount loudspeakers, all in white finish; and the Lounge Bar's system includes 12 EAW VR62 compact full-range loudspeakers and two VRS18s.

The centerpiece of the complex's audio is the EAW DX1208 DS

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USA - At a well-attended dinner in the Peabody Orlando, which took place during the recent LDI 2011 show, Martin Audio's MLA (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) system was awarded the Parnelli Indispensable Technology 'IT' Award in the audio category.

Hosted by comics Flo and Eddie, a.k.a. Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, the 11th Annual Parnelli Awards Dinner honoured lifetime achievement award Winner Ed Wannebo, audio innovator Kenton Forsyth and Parnelli visionary Jim Fackert, along with 24 individuals, companies and products that made significant contributions to the growth and evolution of the live production industry in 2011.

Managing director Anthony Taylor and director of US operations Rob Hofkamp were on hand to accept the award for Martin Audio.

Taylor commented: "It was a real honour to be recognised by our peers in the industry and particularly with such a pres

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UK - The multi-award-winning show Phantom of the Opera has held a dazzling TV and live performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, supported by PRG and ETC lighting.

The lighting for the original show in the West End was designed in 1986 by Andrew Bridge, with associates working on it throughout the show's life. Designing for the Royal Albert Hall, Bridge worked with Patrick Woodroffe to create a production with only three performances. TV cameras were brought in to transmit the final show to thousands of cinemas and theatres worldwide.

Bridge says: "The lighting rig was quite different to the theatre version of Phantom. It was far bigger, and a different shape.

"As a part of the design team, we had a clear idea of what we wanted to achieve; anyone who has been to see the original show would have recognised it, but with the lighting coming from very di

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The Netherlands - Rentall, one of Holland's leading technology sales and rental companies, has been appointed exclusive Benelux distributors for SGM lighting - under its newly formed division, Sales-All BV. The appointment was confirmed, with immediate effect at this year's PLASA Show in London, by company director Michel Roelofsen, and SGM's managing director Peter Johansen and export area manager Steen Geertsen.

Along with co-founder Theo van Workum, Roelofsen has built up a formidable sales and rental company over the past 15 years, with bases throughout Holland and Germany. Their channels to market take them into television and architectural applications as well as concert and theatre touring.

"We are extremely impressed with the new range of SGM products - and over the years we have also sold a lot of older SGM fixtures," he stated. "It's important that we

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UK - Entertainment lighting specialist White Light marks its fortieth anniversary this year - celebrating with a busy season of new theatre productions, the area that the company first worked in and for which it is still best known by many even though its work now encompasses all areas of entertainment lighting.

In London's West End, White Light is supplying the lighting to new productions of Butley, lit by Howard Harrison at The Duchess, Cool Hand Luke, lit by Matthew Eagland at the Aldwych, Driving Miss Daisy transferring to the Wyndhams Theatre from New York and lit by Peter Kaczorowski, Matilda, lit by Hugh Vanstone at the Cambridge, and The Tempest, lit by Paul Pyant at the Haymarket.

White Light is also busy on the touring circuit, supplying the lighting to shows including Buddy (lit by Joe Atkins), Dirty Dancing (lit by T

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UK - Sound Division was recently commissioned to install a background music system in the well known Hix restaurant in Brewer Street, Soho, London.

Hix is the third restaurant in the expanding chain of high-end eateries from chef and entrepreneur Mark Hix. Set in the heart of Soho it boasts an award winning restaurant on the ground floor and the celebrated Mark's in the basement, with its apothecary bar and an eccentric cocktail list.

Sound Division were asked to return to Hix to re-commission the music system that they had installed for the previous restaurant that traded on the site. In addition they were asked to upgrade the speaker system in Marks Bar, the basement bar lounge, to create a more vibrant atmosphere for the guests.

Having previously installed discreet JBL ceiling speakers in Marks Bar, a set of black JBL Control 25AV cabinet speakers were now specified and w

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